This week, Democrats in the House introduced a police reform law that would ban the use of facial recognition technology with police recording equipment. Civil liberties advocates began a campaign to ban the use of facial recognition by law enforcement in 2018, after a report by academic researchers found racial bias in the systems. has led a campaign to push Amazon to stop selling the technology to law enforcement agencies. also tested Amazon’s technology using the head shots of members of Congress and comparing them against a database of publicly available mug shots. At the time, Amazon disputed the findings, saying that the group had used its system differently than law enforcement customers did.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2020 21:57 UTC